Medicine is more merit based?

i_wanna_be_Brown
Thu, 02 Aug 2018 00:12:45 +0000

instead of relationships, who you know, office politics, cycle of friends,etc.

Those play a role in every career path - including science and medicine. 80% of my grade in each of my 3rd year clerkships was based entirely on subjective evaluation of my performance by physicians some of whom spent literally only a handful of hours over the course of a month in the same room as me.